Helping patients and doctors work together to plan treatment

A local health group is leading the electronic charge to the future

Dave Martin wanted to know why, exactly, he had adenoid cystic cancer in his mouth. He didn’t smoke. He didn’t chew tobacco. He lived a healthy life — he drank lots of milk, he ate all his vegetables. So why, he asked the doctors at the University of Washington, did he have cancer?

Budget cuts are hitting programs aimed at infants

Cancer. Heart disease. Stroke. It sometimes feels as though our bodies are under siege from every side — anything we do could be potentially disastrous, any oversight a fatal mistake, any symptom the first sign of a devastating illness.